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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1934
Page
4
A playful roundup reflects on social trends from law and order to public relations and drought. It notes goats thriving on tin cans, fading interest in wood cutting, fiddlers stringing catgut, and debates over wearing shorts while hinting at overdue subscriber payments.
President Roosevelt says the drought problem in North Dakota and other states eludes a simple fix. He notes people face forces of nature beyond control and warns if summers remain dry, many may have to abandon their homes. He observes cycles of rainfall and suggests digging wells as a possible relief.
A novel titled There Shall Be Laughter portrays a horde of wandering young men roaming the country. The piece notes their hitching rides dodging police and facing heartbreak and disappointment. It argues home can offer work and respect, opening chances as boys show usefulness locally.
Admirers of Shirley Temple, three, will note her pay rise from 150 to 1000 dollars weekly with her mother earning 250 dollars for studio duties. Fox film executives approved the raise after negotiations. Temple, daughter of George K. Temple a Santa Monica bank manager, has never attended school and may begin this fall.
High honors were paid to the Mayo brothers of Rochester Minnesota two renowned surgeons who built a famed group of medical and surgical institutions President Roosevelt attended the recent event Their work shows world renown can originate outside big cities and that scientists in smaller towns can lead global advances in health and welfare.
The Queensway underwater tunnel, the world’s longest of its kind, links Liverpool and Birkenhead under the River Mersey. It spans 2.2 miles, is 44 feet in diameter, carries four lanes, cost about 10 million dollars, and was opened by King George with Queen Mary honored. Sir Basil Mott praised American Holland tunnel experience. Separately in Chicago a court asks where the defendant was during an assault, while a Desplaines bride and groom leave the ceremony in a fire engine bridal car.
The item presents a mosaic of humorous lines and brief vignettes from a Dolton setting. It features teacher and child exchanges on history and railway reigns, jokes about turtles and onions, local gossip, and short anecdotes about residents such as Cyril Paquette of Sudbury and Frank W. Truitt of Ocean City.
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